Hello everyone it's me again @Oslec08 This article is about Death Penalty, Filipinos have mixed opinions about the death penalty, with many opposing it on religious and humanitarian grounds, while advocates see it as a way of deterring crimes. Although the Philippines officially does not have capital punishment, extrajudicial killings are very common.
Capital punishment opponents expect a steep battle to prevent President Rodrigo Duterte from reimposing the death penalty, as he renews calls for the law as part of a "drug war" that has already killed thousands of Filipinos.
Since 2016 coming to power our President Duterte waged a brutal crackdown on suspected drug users and dealers, issuing police with shoot-to-kill orders while encouraging citizens to kill drug users too.
Officially the police say they shoot only in self-defense and data shows more than 8,000 people have been killed in anti-drug operations. The nation's human rights commission estimates a toll as high as 27,000.
The piling bodies have been documented by photojournalists whose images of dead suspects face-down in pools of blood after a police raid, or strewn on streets in suspected vigilante murders, have shocked the world.
I am not against the reimposition of the Death Penalty, but with the current situation of the country where the credibility of most of Policemen is questionable and untrustable most of them are involved in drugs to and planting of evidence can we imagined if the Death penalty is imposed many of the people who is falsely accused will suffer to this punishment without really committing a crime.
For me I think Philippine Government are not yet ready for this. The Law enforcement needed to be improved and enhanced including the Criminal Justice System in the country.
Disclaimer: all of the written above is just my opinion, i have no intentions of opposing and offending the government and the people who are not in favor of my opinion.
But let me ask you if your a Filipino are you in favor of the reimpostion of Death penalty?
What can you say about Extra-Judicial Killing?
Please write you answers and opinions on the comment section i would love to read your answer.
Mistaken Convictions
Do you believed that all prisoners and inmates who are in jail are really guilty or committed crime? I Guess not because i don't believe that all of them are guilty and some of them are not and a victim of falsely accused, victim of frame up, and set up.
In his annual address to the nation last month Mr President Duterte claimed reinstating the death penalty by lethal injection would "deter criminality".
But there is little evidence to prove that the death penalty can be a deterrent. Instead research has shown the punishment frequently affects the most disadvantaged.
In the Philippines alone the Supreme Court said in 2004 that 71.77% of death penalty verdicts handed by lower courts were wrong.
"It was traumatic thinking that you can be put to death for a crime you did not commit," said by Dr. Narag, speaking from the US.
Now 46, he was one of five men eventually acquitted, while the others were sentenced to life imprisonment.
The experience has shaped his career. He now researches prolonged trial detention in the Philippines, while advocating for criminal justice reform.
Dr Narag says that if he hadn't managed to track down a key witness, an overseas worker, to return home and testify, proving he wasn't at the crime scene, he may have been convicted.
Through his advocacy he wants Filipinos to know the consequences of mistaken convictions, which could become mistaken executions if the law changes, in an already struggling justice system.
The scope of and timeline for the eventual death penalty bill put to vote in parliament is uncertain, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. Some have argued the bill should not be a priority.
Gloria Lai, Asia director of the International Drug Policy Consortium, says the death penalty has not solved the drug-related problems of any country.
"It is the poor and vulnerable who bear the harsh punishment of criminal justice systems in grossly unjust ways," she says.
Death penalty should not be imposed here in our country. Sabihin na nating marami nang heinous crime dito sa country natin pero meron din tayong palpak at mahinang justice system, wag nalang. Baka mamaya may mga maparusahan na inosente